Using bash on Debian Etch.
If word_doc = sys.argv[1] and it's a file name like My\ Word.doc this
function reads My and Word as two separate files unless the second
'%s' is quoted. Took me a lot of trial and error to discover. Is this
the most elegant way to do it? I was using popen originally, then saw
some threads suggesting subprocess cured the spaces in path problem.
def get_MSWordDoc_t ext(word_doc):
"""Harvests text from an MSWord doc using antiword."""
antiword = "/usr/bin/antiword"
# Note the extra single quotes around the second '%s'
# without these quotes, bash chokes on paths with spaces in them
# says can't open My ; can't open Word
# using new subprocess module, the extra '%s' shouldn't be
necessary?
# but I could not get to work
# see Beazley 2nd Ed. page 340
p = subprocess.Pope n("%s '%s'" % (antiword, word_doc), shell=True,
stdout=subproce ss.PIPE)
doc_text = p.stdout.read()
return doc_text
thx,
rd
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* BartlebyScriven er (Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:32:33 -0000)
Using bash on Debian Etch.
If word_doc = sys.argv[1] and it's a file name like My\ Word.doc this
function reads My and Word as two separate files unless the second
'%s' is quoted. Took me a lot of trial and error to discover. Is this
the most elegant way to do it? I was using popen originally, then saw
some threads suggesting subprocess cured the spaces in path problem.
def get_MSWordDoc_t ext(word_doc):
"""Harvests text from an MSWord doc using antiword."""
antiword = "/usr/bin/antiword"
# Note the extra single quotes around the second '%s'
# without these quotes, bash chokes on paths with spaces in them
# says can't open My ; can't open Word
If bash has problems with spaces then the obvious thing to do is not
to use bash, right?!
Thorsten
En Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:32:33 -0300, BartlebyScriven er
<bs**********@g mail.comescribi ó:
Using bash on Debian Etch.
If word_doc = sys.argv[1] and it's a file name like My\ Word.doc this
function reads My and Word as two separate files unless the second
'%s' is quoted. Took me a lot of trial and error to discover. Is this
the most elegant way to do it? I was using popen originally, then saw
some threads suggesting subprocess cured the spaces in path problem.
Use a list of arguments [antiword, word_doc] and let subprocess handle the
spaces the right way.
--
Gabriel Genellina
On Nov 6, 2:48 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-...@yahoo.com.a rwrote:
>
Use a list of arguments [antiword, word_doc] and let subprocess handle the
spaces the right way.
Got it working. Thank you both.
p = subprocess.Pope n([antiword, word_doc], stdout=subproce ss.PIPE)
doc_text = p.stdout.read()
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